Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands. Along with Japanese, these languages are part of the...

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million...

language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands. The family is universally...

classification of the Japonic languages and their external relations is unclear. Linguists traditionally consider the Japonic languages to belong to an...

of these languages remain, but language shift toward the use of Standard Japanese and dialects like Okinawan Japanese has resulted in these languages...

people of northern Japan and neighboring islands. The primary varieties of Ainu are alternately considered a group of closely related languages or divergent...

Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Until the 20th century, the Ainu languages – Hokkaido Ainu and the now-extinct...

"shameful" languages. The language of instruction was Standard Japanese, and some teachers administered punishments for using non-standard languages, particularly...

semantics, like all languages. Taiou Shuwa (対応手話; Signed Japanese, or 日本語対応手話; Manually coded Japanese) Taiou Shuwa uses the Japanese language word order (grammar)...

Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands. Along with Japanese, these languages are part of the...

Almost all students graduating from high school in Japan have had several years of English language education; however, many [by how much?] still do not...

comprises Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan; Hachijō, spoken on Hachijō-jima, Aogashima, and the Daitō Islands; and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken...

The languages of Taiwan consist of several varieties of languages under the families of Austronesian languages and Sino-Tibetan languages. The Formosan...

pre-Old Japanese phase with fewer consonants and vowels. As is typical of Japonic languages, Old Japanese was primarily an agglutinative language with a...

relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which have a very...

form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa period (1926–1989). It is based on Early Middle Japanese, the language as spoken...

placenames. Some of these languages are believed to have been Koreanic, but there is also evidence suggesting that Japonic languages were spoken in central...

The geographically proximate languages of Japanese (part of the Japonic languages) and Korean (part of the Koreanic languages) share considerable similarity...

Peninsular Japonic languages are now-extinct Japonic languages reflected in ancient placenames and glosses from central and southern parts of the Korean Peninsula...

these languages, but local governments have sought to increase awareness of the traditional languages. The Ainu language, which is a language isolate...

linguistic area, Chinese varieties and languages of southeast Asia share many areal features, tending to be analytic languages with similar syllable and tone...

The Japanese Sign Language (JSL) family is a language family of three sign languages: Japanese Sign Language (JSL) family Japanese Sign Language (JSL)...

sign languages in this article]. "History of the deaf and sign languages in Africa" (in Japanese). Aacore. December 25, 2006. "Africa – Sign Language". LibGuides...

The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages. The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon (にほん) and Nippon (にっぽん). They...

dialect Central Old Japanese (including Western Old Japanese) Japanese language Proto-Ryukyuan Ryukyuan languages The dialects of Aogashima and Utsuki...

other languages. Other top languages are Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Persian, French, German and Japanese. Of the more than 7,000 existing languages, only...

Japanese as a foreign language is studied by foreigners in Japan and non-native speakers worldwide, including those with Japanese ancestry. Many major...

"Japanese-made English", from "wasei" (Japanese made) and "eigo" (English), in other words, "English words coined in Japan") are Japanese-language expressions...

traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese...

The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (日本語能力試験, Nihongo Nōryoku Shiken), or JLPT, is a standardized criterion-referenced test to evaluate and certify...